DIRECT COURSE Blast Shelter Entranceway and Blast Door Experiments

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Title
DIRECT COURSE Blast Shelter Entranceway and Blast Door Experiments
Report Number
CONF-8305107, p. 14-19
Creator
Kiger, S. A.
Hyde, D. W.
Corporate Author
USAE Waterways Experiment Station
Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date
1983
Date Issued
1983-07
Extent
6
Identifier
ADA132780
Format
1 online article (6 pages : ill.)
Abstract
The DIRECT COURSE Event is a high-explosive simulation of a 1-kt height-of-burst nuclear weapon. DIRECT COURSE is sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency and is scheduled for September 1983 at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Three entranceway experiments will be fielded, one full size complete with two blast doors to document structural response and loading in the simulated 1-kt blast environment. Also, two 1/10-scale models, one double and one single entrance configuration, will be used to obtain blast pressure data that can be scaled to a 1-Mt blast environment. Results from these experiments will be used to evaluate and improve structural response calculations for the 1-kt environment, and to obtain loading data for a 1-Mt environment. These data will be used to design entranceways and blast doors for the key worker blast shelter.
Description
The DIRECT COURSE Event is a high-explosive simulation of a 1-kt height-of-burst nuclear weapon. DIRECT COURSE is sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency and is scheduled for September 1983 at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Three entranceway experiments will be fielded, one full size complete with two blast doors to document structural response and loading in the simulated 1-kt blast environment. Also, two 1/10-scale models, one double and one single entrance configuration, will be used to obtain blast pressure data that can be scaled to a 1-Mt blast environment. Results from these experiments will be used to evaluate and improve structural response calculations for the 1-kt environment, and to obtain loading data for a 1-Mt environment. These data will be used to design entranceways and blast doors for the key worker blast shelter.
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1
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No
DTIC Record Exists
No
Illinois Tech Related
No
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Type
article
Is Part Of
Proceedings: 17th Asilomar Conference on Fire and Blast Effects of Nuclear Weapons
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